I know that Gladys Knight and the Pips remade songs that they had done earlier before joining Motown as did Amos Milburn.
Were there other artists who did the same?
I know that Gladys Knight and the Pips remade songs that they had done earlier before joining Motown as did Amos Milburn.
Were there other artists who did the same?
The Supremes redid TEARS OF SORROW.
The Miracles, and Brenda Halloway???? I'm not sure if Every Little Bit Hurts was rerecorded, or just an older master obtained from a previous signing.
Wilson Pickett, In The Midnight Hour, 1987 American Soul Man version.
Brenda Holloway had a good lead to follow from Frank's wife.
What was it that the Miracles re-recorded?
Amos Millburn re-recorded a few songs from his earlier period such as "Darling How Long".
The Spinners re-recorded "That's What [[Little) Girls Are Made For"
The Jackson 5 remade "You've Changed" [[the B-side of their first single, "Big Boy" on Steeltown Records) on their first Motown LP, Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5.
And Michael re-recorded "My Girl"
Prolly doesn't count but Johnny Bristol re-recorded "Someday We'll Be Together" in a way.
The Monitors[[Majestics) rerecorded "Hello Love", which they had originally recorded as The Majestics, while at Thelma Records.
I'm pretty sure that I read that The Merced Blue Notes re-recorded, once they got to Motown, some of the cuts they had made while with Gwen and Harvey's Tri-Phi Records, which never had been released. I believe that "Thompin'" and "Do The Pig" were among them, and both were recorded a third time, and released after they left Motown.
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If Ricky Owens had been with the Temptations long enough to record with them, I would’ve loved for them to do a cover of “Misty” with him reprising the lead he had on the Vibrations version. Likewise Tammi Terrell doing a more polished take of some of her early Scepter recordings.
A reverse one occurred when Lenny Williams originally recorded his iconic “‘Cause I Love You” while with Motown. He re cut it 3 years later on ABC.
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Pretty sure that JJ Barnes re-recorded The House That Jack Built for Motown
Okay, then what gets weirder is that I can't find any evidence of Barbara recording
anything at all, not under her own name...Not as Barbara Dedmon Wilson, Barbara Jean
Dedmon, though she's mentioned as being a singer and as first wife to Frank Wilson...
As far as I know, that California Jazz instrumental group re-recorded a couple of their previous cuts in late 1964 [[or maybe they were late 1963 or early 1964 recordings just re-mixed by Motown's engineers), and one 45 release by them was slated: "Do The Pig"/bw"Thompin' ". But the release plans were dropped before it could even be scheduled for the release. The group was headquartered in California [[Merced), and had previously recorded in San Francisco and Oakland. I don't even know if know if while under contract to Gwen and Harvey's Tri-Phi Records, they came to Detroit, to record in The Snakepit. They may have recorded in Oakland, and sent the recordings to Detroit for mixing. In any case, they were dropped from Motown in early '65, and they signed with The San Francisco Bay Area's Fantasy/Galaxy Records, and had several 45s and an LP released on Galaxy Records. They had 2 charted big regional hits "Rufus, Jr.", and "Bad, Bad, Whiskey". They were a great guitar-driven funky Jazz band.
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Here's "Rufus, Jr.":
Here's their biggest record for Tri-Phi, "Whole Lotta Nothing":
Here's a formerly unreleased cut from their Ace Records CD done [[for Tri-Phi?) in 1963, "Head Bad":
Here's an example of their ability to make vocal recordings, "Sundown":
He and I seem to be of similar age, and probably have similar taste in Jazz. My favourite period of Jazz is probably 1959-67. "Bad, Bad, Whiskey" reminds me a LOT of The Jazz Crusaders' early Blue Note cuts, and same for those of The Jazz Messengers, and a lot of the 1962-66 Blue Note, Pacific Jazz, World Pacific, small combo Progressive Jazz.
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Who told you that Motown Junkies is "defunct"? Stephen is just very busy, and between uploads. He has a growing family, plus more pressure from work - even during the lockdown, and will continue adding revues whenever he can sneak them in. He never said anything to me about stopping. Did you see any announcement. He just posted yesterday about Landini's bad news.
The story I heard was that Brenda was intimidated by Barbara’s demo, and didn’t think she was capable of doing it justice. She was literally crying while laying down her vocals.
Sadly, Barbara died shortly after the release of Brenda’s version. Does anyone have any details of what happened to her. I’m sure it played a role in Frank’s decision to relocate to Detroit.
[QUOTE=jboy88;581742]The story I heard was that Brenda was intimidated by Barbara’s demo, and didn’t think she was capable of doing it justice. She was literally crying while laying down her vocals.
What you are remembering is what Brenda Holloway relates on pg. 249 of Bill Dahl's book, 'Motown: The Golden Years'.
Barbara's demo version of 'Every Little Bit Hurts' can be heard on this cd [[Track 22) :
https://acerecords.co.uk/the-early-y...ings-1962-1963
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